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    Please someone hold my hand.....

    I posted on here back in October while I was hatching chickens for the first time in my classroom. Well this time we decided to do peking ducks. I put them in the incubator March 21 and went into lockdown April 15. They were supposed to hatch yesterday. This morning I have one egg thats pipped...
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    I can't believe how wonderful this message board is! All of you are so supportive and helpful!!!! All the chicks are doing so good....they were moved to a bigger brooder today because the little darlings were learning how to fly/jump out....I took them outside for a little bit today to walk...
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    I have no idea what breed they are! Isn't that awful?!?!?!
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    I'm exhausted! We have 9 babies!!! I'm shocked. I do have a brooder with a heat lamp (its a box and a goose neck lamp). I've also been taking them home at night because our facility is on the lake and we have all kinds of other wildlife that sometimes find their way into the vents and into the...
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    Awe! Thank you so much!!! Its really very cool...it was even cooler today when one of my groups got to see one of the eggs hatch!!! This is what one boy said...."darn Miss....this is the most amazing thing I ever saw, and I had to be in jail to see it!" Sad, but good in a way. SO I came in this...
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    I finally had to come home....I have dogs and a child that felt they deserved more attention than my chick and eggs. I'm exhausted! Why do I feel like I spent all day trying to come out of an egg??? Our program is a county non-secure residential facility. The boys range in age from 12 to 17...
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    Nevermind...I figured it out...geeez the county will hire anyone
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    I swear not 5 minutes after I sent that message he hatched!!! Thanks for the good juju How can I post these pics?
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    Thank you...both of you! I'm sitting here in my classroom next to my incubator talking to them. My last class was at 2:00. I can't make myself leave I keep reading on different sites, (grrr curse the internet!!!), that too much humidity will cause them to pip but not hatch. Do you think that...
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    Hatching Today...I'm Terrified!

    Hi everyone! I'm new here, and I know there are a hundred posts probably just like this but I need some hand holding. I'm a teacher at a boys juvenile detention facility and this is our second try at hatching chicks in the classroom. The last time we had a very old incubator that did not...
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